WORKING THURSDAY

 I worked on quilting a little more on Nebula.

I finally got caught up with the Art East Quilting Mini-Block Sampler.  Here is #14 The Cyclone and #15 The Gem.

Then I recovered the ironing board with a new cover of a oatmeal colored wool fabric.  It definitely looks a lot better.

HOMEMADE CLAPPER

 Darrell made a clapper for me.

RED CIRCLES

I've been calling them red, but now that I'm working with the fabric, it isn't really red.  It's more of a tomato color - orangish red.  Whatever it is, I made the circles that will be appliqued into the center of each wedge circle.

I cut out the proper sized circle from heat-resistant template plastic, traced it onto the back of the tomato fabric and cut out nine circles with a generous seam allowance.

I then hand stitch a basting stitch around the outside, keeping the stitches as close together as possible [it makes the circle smoother].  With the template plastic on the inside, I drew the basting thread tight causing the seam allowance to fold over onto the back.  Then iron it, and remove the plastic circle.

Easy-peasy.

After lunch at Coastline Burgers in the Junction I made a few more blocks of the Putty and Mortar quilt and cut out the rest of the pieces.  [Sorry, I didn't take pictures].

Then I made a few more City Sampler Blocks - 46 and 47.  The Challenge has begun on Instagram, today was Day 2.   So far I've been keeping up!

TRIANGLES AND DOTS

Of course I've started a new project.  Those 128 old ones are just boring.  I bought some fabric a little while ago to use as the back of a project.  I'm using sorta matching colors of mostly solids on the front.  I don't have the colors I wished I had, so we are making do. 

I'm doing triangles.

I've finally decided to press seams open.

Up on  the wall - needs lots of work yet.

BACK FINISHED

The back is finished!  It's too large to photograph.  Here it is on the ironing table.